CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'

As partial as I am to New York over any other state in the US (with the exception of good old homebase HI), sometimes I can't help getting a little nostalgic about my West Coast roots. This often happens when LA friends email me to tell me gloat about fab little parties at fab little stores that I can't get to because they're 2,462 miles away.

Case in point: late last week when one of my favorite stores in the world, Presse, threw a chic soiree (their first ever) and offered guests champagne, macaroons, and a 10% discount off of everything in the store (which includes Alaia, Derek Lam, Thakoon, Bruce, and Proenza Schouler—basically a laundry list of my top most-wanted-in-my-closet designers). So not fair.

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If you're anywhere near the left coast, ladies, you've gotta go check this store out.